Australia vs Australia and New Zealand: Wheat — Area harvested

Australia
13.06 million ha
in 2024
Australia and New Zealand
13.11 million ha
in 2024
Australia rank
8th
Australia and New Zealand rank
6th

Wheat — Area harvested over time

  • Australia
  • Australia and New Zealand
05.0M10.0M15.0M196119922024

How they compare

Australia and New Zealand currently reports 13.11 million ha against 13.06 million ha in Australia, a difference of 46,400 ha.

Across all 64 years both countries report, Australia and New Zealand has been ahead every year.

Australia ranks 8th and Australia and New Zealand ranks 6th of 124 countries.

Australia and New Zealand has averaged higher in every one of the 7 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Australia Australia and New Zealand Difference Ahead
1960s 7.94 million ha 8.03 million ha 92,201 ha Australia and New Zealand
1970s 8.73 million ha 8.83 million ha 92,355 ha Australia and New Zealand
1980s 10.93 million ha 11.01 million ha 71,281 ha Australia and New Zealand
1990s 9.54 million ha 9.59 million ha 45,972 ha Australia and New Zealand
2000s 12.55 million ha 12.60 million ha 43,940 ha Australia and New Zealand
2010s 12.00 million ha 12.05 million ha 48,418 ha Australia and New Zealand
2020s 12.37 million ha 12.42 million ha 43,800 ha Australia and New Zealand

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher wheat — area harvested, Australia or Australia and New Zealand?
Australia and New Zealand, at 13.11 million ha against 13.06 million ha in Australia as of 2024.
What is the difference in wheat — area harvested between Australia and Australia and New Zealand?
46,400 ha, with Australia and New Zealand ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Australia and New Zealand?
64 years are reported by both, from 1961 to 2024.
How do Australia and Australia and New Zealand rank globally for wheat — area harvested?
Australia ranks 8th and Australia and New Zealand ranks 6th of 124 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Wheat — Area harvested. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Wheat — Area harvested
Unit
ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
164 places, 9,260 data points, 1961–2024
Last refreshed

Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.